Works about Caravaggio’s paintings and Caravaggio as a painter are classed in 759.5 Italian painting (built with 759 Historical, geographic, persons treatment of painting plus 5 from T2—45 Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta, following instructions at 759.3–759.8 Miscellaneous parts of Europe). In the upward hierarchy at 759.1–759.9 Geographic treatment are instructions about classifying individual painters; they have hierarchical force:

Individual painters are classed in notation at country level only. Standard subdivisions T1—074, T1—075, and T1—092 from Table 1 are not added for individual painters, e.g., an exhibition of the work of a Canadian painter, collecting the person's works, and a biography of the painter 759.11 (not 759.11074, 759.11075, or 759.11092, respectively).

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